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13 Fathers Day Printables Crafts| Round-Up

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Such a FUN time of year! I LOVE celebrating my dad, but even more exciting… helping my kids celebrate their dad! We have got a bunch of the best ideas from our friends around the blogging community to compile some absolutely dah-ling ideas for you this Father's Day. We think they are beyond fabulous! But wait!!! The best part is that this is the "Quick & Easy" section! If you are running out of time and need to come up with something FABULOUS for Father's Day – these ideas should take you 15 minutes or less to prepare. The only problem? Choosing which Fathers Day Printables Crafts you want to do!! Take a look!!

#1) Framed Father's Day Quote {Somewhat Simple} – Darling and sooooo easy!! It doesn't get any easier than this! Print directly from the computer or use some vinyl to stick on the glass with scrapbook paper behind it. Simple and sweet. #2) Money Shirt For Your Guy {HowDoesShe?} – A new way to give him some "man cash" to show how much you love him: An Origami Man Shirt #3) Homemade M&M Dispenser {The Dating Divas} – If the father of the house LOVES M&M's – then you should definitely check out this hilarious and fun idea to surprise him on Father's Day! #4) A Basket of Love For Dad or Grandpa {Somewhat Simple} – Get the kids involved by asking them what they love most about their dad or grandpa. Type up and print their responses and attach them to small items that illustrate their answers. With this gift, it isn't so much about the items you buy, but more about the meaning of those items that will make him feel special- perfect for the guy who already has everything!!! #5) Father's Day Card Tutorial {The Dating Divas} – Print off this printable listing all the synonyms that go along with being a father! Grab some colorful paper and your Father's Day card is complete! #6) Father's Day Printables {WhipperBerry} – A cute little tag to add to Dad's favorite bottle of Pop. It says "Pop you put the Fizz into my Life!" #7) Surprise Love Notes {HowDoesShe?} – Surprise him throughout the day with these adorable love notes on his favorite foods and places. #8) Father's Day Print {Sweet Rose Studio} – This simple gift is perfect and easy for a last minute present for the special dad in your life! Print it out, frame it, and it's ready to go! #9) Father's Day Word Art {The Crafting Chicks} – A meaningful quote turned into a beautiful free printable to frame for Dad. #10) The Sock Bouquet {HowDoesShe?} – A beautiful new way to give your love his favorite socks! #11) Free Father's Day Questionaire Printable {The Crafting Chicks} – Kids say the funniest things! Quiz your kids to see what they think about their dads and grandpas, it'll be the hit of the day! #12) World's Best POP! {The Dating Divas} – All you need is a can of your man's favorite soda, this darling printable, and a strip of fabric. Adorable way to let him know he's loved. #13) More Father's Day Printables {Sweet Rose Studio} – Celebrate Dad on his special day with these great cupcake toppers and a sweet banner!

Did you find the perfect gift idea? I found like TEN! Holy cow! If you did find something amazing, don't be shy about sharing the love! PIN it, comment on our post, comment on our amazing friends posts!! We love hearing from you! And we love making it easy for you, too!!!

Happy Father's Day!!

13 Ideas to Make for your Honey for Fathers Day

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Fathers Day is coming up, and what better way to show your love, then with a thoughtful present. Men don't always love the cutsie things that we create, but they love feeling special. So no matter what you do, make sure the present you choose is special for your man. These things make them remember their wonderful family! Father's tend to be forgotten during the year, so doing the little things, make them feel appreciated.

We have gathered up some darling ideas to create for your awesome spouse with the help of many different websites. This was a HUGE collaboration which gives you tons of wonderful ideas to create for your spouse. There is so much to choose from, and if you like an idea click on the title. It's that easy!

#1) Spouse Subway Art {The Dating Divas} – Custom-make a subway art piece based ON your husband! This free site we found will help you do just that! #2) Luggage Handle Cover {Little Birdie Secrets} – A great "manly" gift for the guy who travels! This luggage handle cover is a quick and easy project, but one that will surely be appreciated by the dad in your life. Not only does it make his luggage handle more comfortable when lugging it through the airport, but it makes his bag easier to spot on the luggage carousel! #3) Best Daddy Ever Beans {The Letter 4} – This is so fun for the daddy who loves jelly beans! The printable provided renames the jelly bean jar "Best Daddy Ever Beans" and the flavors of each bean are replaced with a trait of daddy. ex. smart, caring, kind, etc. #4) "You're a Catch" Pail {Lil' Luna} – Super cute and easy gift to give to your spouse to thank him for being such a great catch and awesome daddy! #5) "All About You" Basket {The Dating Divas} – Who DOESN'T love to get compliments? Write down things you love about the man in your life & pair them with fun little presents to create the ULTIMATE "all about you" basket! #6)Father's Day Canvas Collage {Somewhat Simple} – A sweet and simple gift to Dad from the kiddos. #7) Manly Apron for Dad {The Crafting Chicks} – Here's an idea for a more manly apron for the grillmaster in the family, using Silhouette's heat transfer kit. #8) "My Pop Rocks!" {My Insanity} – This gift basket is so fun and easy to put together with free printables! Does your "pop" rock? Tell him with this pop-themed basket, featuring pop rocks, popcorn, soda pop and more! #9)Map O'Love {How Does She?} – Create a memory of your lives together using maps of where you have lived and the special moments that happened there…all in one special Map O'Love book. A beautiful, meaningful, personal gift. #10)Hot Stuff Grilling Father {My Insanity} – "Hot Stuff"-themed Father's Day for the the grill master (or hot man) in your life. DIY grilling apron and cake that lights on fire! #11)The Tickle Monster {How Does She?} – There is not much that is more beautiful than a child's laugh. This tickle set is the perfect gift your love and his children. #12)Father's Day Message Plaque {The Crafting Chicks} – A fun and simple gift where the kiddos can write love messages to their daddy. The best part is that it's dry erase vinyl, so the message can be changed every day! #13) Birthday Week Gifts 4 Him {The Dating Divas} – Originally a birthday post, these GREAT ideas for "manly" gifts would double perfectly for Father's Day!

There are so many ideas for Father's Day presents! We hope that you like what you have seen as we spent lots of time making sure that we presented you with AMAZING and thoughtful gifts to give to your man. Be sure to check back tomorrow for even more ideas!

Fathers Day Magnet Board | Gift Idea with Free Printable

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The other day the little guy and I joined my sweet husband at work for a quick bite to eat and I noticed something horribly wrong with his office… All of the pictures that I had so lovingly framed and put together for him of our family were horribly out dated.  Some of them were missing key family members because they weren’t even born yet! With Fathers Day approaching I thought this would be a great opportunity to bring his office surroundings up to the present day. The issue, he needs his desk to actually work so… I needed to come up with a fun idea that was also space saving as well.

The Photos

Like many people out there I have fallen in love with Instagram and I thought it would be a fun idea to use my fun Instagram photos to create a magnetic memo board for my Honey’s office. My sweet friend Kellie from Nest of Posies turned me onto StickyGram9 while we were at SNAP! and I thought it would be a perfect way to liven up my husband’s work space.  StickyGram has such a fabulous idea… they turn your Instagram photos into a cute little magnet that is perfect to dress up your fridge, your work space, dorm room… where ever you can stick a magnet…  now you can stick your Instagrams. I LOVE this idea.

This is such a fun way to get a snapshot of real life, not just those posed family pictures that we all love.  This is a slice of real life. 

The Magnetic Board

I headed to the brand new Container Store here in Las Vegas and found the perfect magnetic memo board for the job.

You can’t see it here but it’s long, 2.5 x 28 inches perfect for adding several StickyGrams. Of course, being myself I wanted to dress it up a bit.  I couldn’t just hand him a long strip of stainless steal and some magnets and call it good.  It needed to be Whipperfied! 

Granted, I know the poor guy does not want a single felt flower or a lick of burlap to ever set foot in his office space… gasp, what would the guys think? They all say they don’t care… but they do care what other guys think! I knew it needed to be masculine and understated in order for it to fit the space. I found some vintage looking paper and thought it would look great if I decoupaged that right onto the magnetic strip.

The Supply List

The Instructions

  1. Place the magnetic strip on some freezer paper and lift it up on some plastic knives or whatever is handy, it just keeps the board from resting directly on the paper while you are using the Decoupage.
  2. Cut the strips of paper into 2.5 inch strips. Because of the length of the metal strip I need a few sheets of paper. 
  3. Apply a thin coat of Decoupage directly onto the surface of the metal.
  4. Carefully apply the first piece of paper onto the metal and secure into place by appling another thin coat of Decoupage onto the  surface of the paper.

  1. Once you finish appling the paper let it dry for a bit.  The beautiful thing about the Decoupage is that it dries to the touch pretty fast.  However, I would still let it sit for a couple of hours before I did anthing else to it, just to be safe.

The Design

Now even though I was trying to keep this pretty low key, I wanted it to symbolize that it was a Fathers Day gift from us, so I created a classy image to put in the corner of the memo board.  I printed it directly on the paper  so it fit seamlessly into the general design of the memo board. Here it is if you would like to download it and use it for a board of your own.

Click on the arrow at the bottom of the box and the download will automatically start. This printable if for WhipperBerry followers {please follow via Facebook, Twitter, Feeburner, Email, Pinterest or Instagram} and is for personal use only.

Before you apply your printed image to the board, test it with the Decoupage just to make sure the ink doesn’t smear.  I didn’t have an issue, but it’s better to be safe than sorry.

When it dries it looks beautiful!!

The Finishing Touches

Once your board is dry, all you have to do is find the best instagram photos to share.  I created several sheets of my Instagram pictures that I thought my husband would love. 

Not all of them fit on the board at one time, but that’s the fun of it!  I put all of the extras into a jar that he can keep on his desk and then he can switch them out as often as he likes.

The lovely thing is that every once in a while I can purchase a new sheet of StickyGrams to freshen up his fun board.  It’s perfect!! It doesn’t take up too much space and it doesn’t have all the same old pictures all the time.  I LOVE it!!  I hope my Mr. will love it too.

The Deal

The amazing folks at StickyGram have offered all of you, my favorite friends… 10% off your total first purchase!!   All you have to do is enter WHIPPERBERRY at checkout to receive the discount. Cheers StickyGram… you guys are the best!

 

  Here is another fun Fathers Day easy gift idea for you.  Add a fun printable to a bottle of soda that says, “Pop you put the Fizz in my Life.”  It’s another fun way to show your sweet Dad how much you love an appreciate all that he does for you and your family! Visit this post for the free printable Fathers Day gift tag.

Happy Fathers Day everyone!!

 

 

Disclaimer | This is not a paid post for any of the companies mentioned in the post.  I contacted StickyGram myself and asked for the discount code for you all, they did not solicit me for this post. |

Fabric Wall Art with Silhouette’s New larger Cutting Mat | Tutorial

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This last Christmas my Mom gave me a pretty special gift that I have repurposed and will now be re-gifting it right back to her for Mother's Day.  Now don't worry, this is the kind of re-gifting that is alright, even special in my book.  Thanks to my Silhouette CAMEO I've been able to make a stunning piece of fabric wall art with Silhouette's new larger cutting mat for my Mom…

Over Christmas my Mom gave me some beautiful buttons that she salvaged from a dress that my grandmother used to wear.  It was one of those 1950's black Audrey Hepburn kind of dresses that my Mom just loved.  She thought I could use the fabulous buttons for one of my projects.

Sure enough I thought of a project that would be perfect for these treasured family heirlooms, however I didn't have a cutting mat big enough to make the project just right.  I wanted to make a simple piece of wall art that was the silhouette of a black dress with the buttons on it.  The problem… if I used my 12×12 cutting mat the dress would be too small and the buttons would look silly.

Then I when to CHA and learned about Silhouette's new 12×24 cutting mat and I knew it was going to be perfect for my project. I ran out and bought some black dress fabric, some off white canvas duck cloth for the background and a 10×20 frame that I found on clearance.

To start I ironed the black fabric onto some of the Silhouette Clean Cut Fabric Interfacing and then placed it on the 12×24 inch mat…

I then started the search for the perfect black dress silhouette for the project.  Unfortunately, all of the dresses in the Silhouette design gallery didn't fit the bill so I searched online for the perfect black dress {isn't that always the never ending search? A black dress for my party now I have to find one for a project! he he…}  I finally found a great SVG file that was PERFECT!! Because I've upgraded to the Silhouette Studio Designer Edition it was not a problem at all to use the SVG file. I downloaded the image and then open the design studio…

I opened the image and sized it to 14×7 and then added the text at the bottom. Using the Modern No. 20 font and sized it to fit the frame.

Next, I had to go to the Cut Style tool on the top right of the screen to allow my Cameo to recognize the SVG file while it was cutting.  While the image was selected I clicked on the Cut Edge tool and a red line appeared around the edge of the dress showing that the cameo now recognized the image and was ready to cut…

I placed the fabric lined with the Silhouette Clean Cut Fabric Interfacing on the 12×24 mat and ran it though the CAMEO.  I cut the dress first and then the words, just to make sure I didn't have any issues.

I removed the paper backing from the fabric and then ironed it onto the canvas duck cloth that I had cut to the perfect 10×20 size to fit the frame. Then I hot glued the precious buttons to the dress.  Next I cut the letters out of the same fabric…

I used some vinyl transfer tape, just like you would with vinyl, to transfer the letters onto the canvas duck cloth.  This is where it got a little tricky.  I wasn't sure how the transfer tape would react to the heat of the iron, but I wanted my word to stay perfectly intact.  So, I took a risk.  I carefully and quickly ironed the letters through the transfer tape and it worked perfect.  I worked fast and I didn't place the iron on for very long. I could tell that it could cause issues if I lingered too long.

I removed the transfer tape and it looked PERFECT!! I was so excited! I placed it in the frame and was in awe.  Look at those letters… THEY ARE FABRIC!! 

Look at the clean cut and the perfect lines…

Have you ever had an idea in your head and once you've made it, it far and away surpasses your expectations?  This one totally did! I have to say I am madly and deeply in love with my Cameo now {not that I wasn't before, ha ha}…

Sorry Mom, you get to see your Mother's Day present early!

What a fun way to display my Grandmother's beautiful buttons.  A Priceless treasure that could've easily been tucked away in a drawer and forgotten about.  Now my Mom can have this on her wall and remember her beautiful and elegant mother every time she walks by this lovely fabric wall art. Happy Mother's Day Mom… I LOVE YOU!!

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